Examining the Role of Digital Forensics in Strengthening Cybercrime Investigations in India

In today’s digital era, the technological advancement has started dominating in every field because it has been easily accessible to the public and they can get access to everything at one place and further it has become a part of day-to-day life. This dependence on technological advancement has led to an increase in computer and internet related crimes, and it has made it more difficult to find cyber criminals because the place of operation and action of cybercrime are from a different place, and this ends up being difficult in tracing such cyber criminals. The cyber-crime has increased in every field because their platform of committing the crime is completely different, and the general investigation process does not cover the concept of cyber-crime and this brings up the need and necessary of digital forensics as this is the process of collecting digital evidence without infringing the privacy and to maintain the integrity of evidence to make it admissible in court. In simple terms, digital forensics is also a part of forensic science, and this is used to investigate cybercrimes. There are many challenges in collecting digital evidence, and a major issue faced during this digital forensic is that they have to use encrypted data which may end up in violation of data privacy and further need to deal with legal and jurisdictional issues. Despite all this challenges digital forensic has created a new path to help in investigation of cybercrime. This paper focuses on the concept of challenges of digital forensic during investigation of cybercrime and its role in creating impact of such investigation and further it deals with the legal issues during admissibility in court as evidence.